Trump pushes for a boycott of Apple

Donald Trump is egging on a boycott of Apple until the electronics company helps the government unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, killers.

“I like the idea of a boycott of Apple until such time as they give that information,” the GOP presidential candidate said during a rally in Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, on Friday.

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The government has determined that Apple has the ability to install software to help crack the security on an iPhone connected to the December massacre in San Bernardino, but Apple has refused to do so and accused the FBI of trying to install a "backdoor."

“Apple, they should give up, they should get the security or find other people,” Trump said. "We gotta get to the bottom of it and you’re not gonna get to the bottom of it unless you use common sense.”

Trump also targeted Apple CEO Tim Cook over his statement explaining why he opposed the government order.

"Tim Cook is looking to do a big number, probably to show how liberal he is," Trump said.

When news outlets noticed afterward that he was tweeting from an iPhone, he switched to Twitter's web interface and wrote:

Boycott all Apple products until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal